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Thanks for the post — bump for later sickening read....
Right. Because it’s not about what’s good for you. It’s about tyranny.
My tonsils are already spoken for, and they can’t have them.
One thing the tort-reform crowd has never made clear to me is exactly what they see as the appropriate cap for medical malpractice awards. If your doctor screws the pooch and kills you or paralyzes you, or turns you into a vegetable, what’s the reasonable dollar limit you should be allowed to recover? Should physicians simply be immune from personal responsibility altogether? I’m curious. Flame away (or better yet give a straight answer).
Both of my sons had their tonsils out too. Back when they were young, doctors didn't want to take out tonsils. They said they helped with the immune system. But both sons suffered from sore throats and earaches like I did. The youngest son was the worse, and try as we might, no specialist in the area wanted to take them out. It got so that he was on penicillin every other month, and missed quite a bit of school. We finally managed to find a doctor about an hour away that would operate. By that time, my son was probably 12 years old. After the operation, the doctor said he'd never seen such huge tonsils and adenoids, and said they were terribly scarred from all the infections he had had.